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Wawaloam
Wawaloam (before 1620 – after 1661) (also known as Wararme) was a leader of the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, and she was the wife of Miantonomi. Wawaloam was a daughter of Sowheag (often mis-stated to be Sequasson), an ally of Miantonomi, who was likely a Wangunk or Nipmuc sachem living near the Connecticut River. The name "Wawaloam" may refer to the flight of a sparrow in the Nipmuc language. In 1632 Wawaloam and Miantinomi visited Governor John Winthrop at his home in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1638 Wawaloam and Miantonomi marched with Roger Williams to Hartford with one hundred warriors to negotiate with the authorities there for Providence's protection. In June of 1661 while at her village of Aspanansuck (Exeter Hill) Wawaloam signed an affidavit regarding Misquamicut, which she swore was taken from the Pequots and given to Socho (Sassawwaw) for military services rendered prior to the Pequot War (1637). In the late 1800s a farmer in Exeter, Rhode Island William M. B ...
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Exeter, Rhode Island
Exeter is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Exeter extends east from the Connecticut border to the town of North Kingstown. It is bordered to the north by West Greenwich and East Greenwich, and to the south by Hopkinton, Richmond, and South Kingstown. Exeter's postal code is 02822, although small parts of the town have the mailing address West Kingston (02892) or Saunderstown (02874). The population was 6,460 at the 2020 census. History Native Americans lived in the town prior to King Philip's War, and Wawaloam, a female Narragansett/Nipmuc leader lived in the town in the 1660s. The town of Exeter was formed in 1742 from the western part of North Kingstown. The name Exeter derives from the county town and cathedral city of Exeter in Devon, England. Numerous other places have also been given the name. Exeter is noted by folklorists as the site of one of the best documented examples of vampire exhumation: the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of 1892. ...
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Miantonomi
Miantonomoh (1600? – August 1643), also spelled Miantonomo, Miantonomah or Miantonomi, was a chief of the Narragansett people of New England Indians. Biography He was a nephew of the Narragansett grand sachem, Canonicus (died 1647), with whom he associated in the government of the tribe, and whom he succeeded in 1636. Miantonomoh seems to have been friendly to the English colonists of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Massachusetts, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Rhode Island, and Connecticut Colony, Connecticut, though he was accused of being treacherous. In 1632 Miantonomoh and his wife Wawaloam travelled to Boston to visit with Governor John Winthrop. In 1636, when under suspicion, Miantonomoh went to Boston to prove his loyalty to the colonists. In the following year, during the Pequot War, he permitted John Mason (c. 1600–1672), John Mason to lead his Connecticut expedition against the Pequot Indians through Narragansett country. The Pequot were defeated in thi ...
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Wangunk
The Wangunk or Wongunk were an Indigenous people from central Connecticut. They had three major settlements in the areas of the present-day towns of Portland, Middletown, and Wethersfield. They also used lands in other parts of what were later organized by English settlers as Middlesex and Hartford counties. Some sources call the Wangunk the Mattabessett, or Mattabesch, but Wangunk is the name used by scholars and by contemporary Wangunk descendants. Prior to European contact, the Wangunk spoke Quiripi, which is part of the large Algonquian language family and had strong connections with other of the many Algonquian nations, whose territory was along the Atlantic coast and rivers leading to the sea. Some living people identify as having Wangunk ancestry; however, there is no Wangunk political organization that is a state-recognized tribe by Connecticut or a federally recognized as a Native American tribe. Territory Wangunk people lived in and near present-day Middletown, Hadd ...
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Female Native American Leaders
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Native American History Of Rhode Island
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Niantic People
The Niantic (Nehântick or Nehantucket in their own language) were a tribe of Algonquian-speaking American Indians who lived in the area of Connecticut and Rhode Island during the early colonial period. They were divided into eastern and western groups due to intrusions by the more numerous and powerful Pequots. The Western Niantics were subject to the Pequots and lived just east of the mouth of the Connecticut River, while the Eastern Niantics became very close allies to the Narragansetts. It is likely that the name Nantucket is derived from the tribe's endonym, Nehantucket. The division of the Niantics became so great that the language of the eastern Niantics is classified as a dialect of Narragansett, while the language of the western Niantics is classified as Mohegan-Pequot. History The Niantics spoke an Algonquian Y-dialect similar to their neighbors the Pequots, Mohegans, and Narragansetts in New England, and the Montauks on eastern Long Island. The tribe's name "Neh ...
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Native American Leaders
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17th-century Native Americans
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People Of Colonial Rhode Island
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Narragansett People
The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island. Today, Narragansett people are enrolled in the federally recognized Narragansett Indian Tribe. They gained federal recognition in 1983. The tribe was nearly landless for most of the 20th century but acquired land in 1991 in their lawsuit ''Carcieri v. Salazar'', and they petitioned the Department of the Interior to take the land into trust on their behalf. This would have made the newly acquired land to be officially recognized as part of the Narragansett Indian reservation, taking it out from under Rhode Island's legal authority. In 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the request, declaring that tribes which had achieved federal recognition since the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act did not have standing to have newly acquired lands taken into federal trust and removed from state control. Reservation The Narragansett tribe was recognized by the federal government in 1983 and contro ...
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